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Staff were supposed to offer bed baths or provide wash basins for residents to clean themselves when the shower was unavailable.

The catheter had been ordered on August 27 following the resident's readmission to the facility.

Resident #3, readmitted to the facility in August, suffered from unspecified dementia along with right-side paralysis and weakness following a stroke.

"It was very frustrating," said the resident advocate who attended a care conference on August 29.

The resident arrived at the facility on July 8 with a physician's order for alprazolam 1 milligram at bedtime for anxiety.

The resident, identified as Resident 5 in the September inspection report, was observed on September 1 with a bandage on his right hand.

Broadway by the Sea's Assistant Director of Nursing revealed the facility had stopped administering the prescribed Ciclopirox 8% nail lacquer on July 14.

The September 15 incident at Signature Healthcare of Galion involved a resident with Alzheimer's disease who had suffered a skin tear on her right lower leg.

Resident 1 had been walking down the hallway around 1:15 p.m.

The mismatched settings persisted for an unknown period and could have hindered the healing of the resident's sacral wound, nurses acknowledged to inspectors.

The equipment shortage forced residents who normally received showers to get bed baths instead and delayed morning care routines by hours.

The assistant, identified as A.M.